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[Knut Staring <knutst@xxxxxxxxx>]

This may be yet another good reason to try and move away from custom forms.
I think most of your forms could work well as custom forms.

Knut

On Thursday, January 12, 2012, Muhire Andrew wrote:

>
> Dear jason,
> i have custom forms!
>
> ------------------------------On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 11:54 AM PST Jason
> Pickering wrote:>Seems like a good idea. Do you have section forms or
> custom forms?>>>On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 9:18 PM, Muhire Andrew <
> muhireandrew@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>> wrote:>>>> Hi to all,>> i would
> like to run integrity check to see the data element that are in dataset
> that are not linked to the form. Is this possible? Not data element without
> dataset ( data element in dataset that is not linked to the form). Because
> this affects data completeness report(based on data values) where by the
> target column counts all linked and nonlinked data elements which can
> confuse users. Per now i just use a manual
> checking.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>------------------------------On Wed, Jan 11, 2012
> 2:06 AM PST Ola Hodne Titlestad wrote:>I would suggest to capture service
> availability and stock-outs as separate>data elements or even orgunit
> groups for services, and not as some>interpretation of a 0. Then there is no
>  need to capture zeros.>Once the data is aggregated up one level all this
> zero/blank interpretation>is impossible anyway. The complete button also
> gives an indication of>wheter data is missing of not.>Ola>On Jan 11, 2012
> 9:45 AM, "Knut Staring" <knutst@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>> wrote:> Here in
> India, the activities of  Subcenters differ quite a bit in the> particular
> services they offer. Therefore, since all use a standard format,> there
> will almost always be a number of fields that are not applicable.> Because
> of this, they maintain that 0 is signficant, because it means "Have> the
> service, but no cases this month", whereas a blank field means "Don't> have
> the service" in other words N/A.>>>>  Sometimes it can even mean something
> in-between, like "We normally> distribute Iron tablets, but sometimes we
> don't have them (blank), and> sometimes we have them but there is no demand
> (0)". In my view the latter> semantics is quite complicated, and hard to
> get consistent, but
>  I'm being> told the health workers handle it well. Thus, a typical report
> can consist> of 50 positive integers, 7 blanks and 20 zeros.> Since data
> entry on the mobile is quite cumbersome and zeros also tend to> fill up the
> database, I would have preferred zeros to be non-significant> and just go
> with blanks. But then we would lose the above distinction.> Knut>> --> Knut
> Staring> Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo> +4791880522>
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Knut Staring
Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo
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